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I was considering switching from Windows to Linux but man, I don't know, if only they had one more installer... /s
Why people can't just use Calamares and stop reinventing the wheel?
This is a really dumb take. If you don't like it, don't use it. They got an idea and implement it? Good for them And what does that even have to do with switching to Linux?
Instead of wasting time on something that has already 1k iterations, they could redirect that effort on something beneficial to Linux.
Any person contributing to this new installer is a person less contributing to something distro agnostic, which is a loss for everyone.
Any project is beneficial if someone is passionate about doing it.
The “this person shouldn’t work on this project, they should work on something that benefits me” line is selfish as hell.
If the projects you see aren’t the projects you want, then DIY. But don’t tell people they wasted their time because you don’t want to use their software.